The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-12
COSTLY pocKErRocKs.
Street Car Manners as Witnessed in
New York

New York.
New York, Dec. 10-Even the
pocketbook, receptacle for cash, costs
great deal of cash to buy If you
meet Ada Rehan, stately and dignified, on
Broadway any fine afternoon, you will
notice that she carries in her hand pocket
book of polished alligator leather something
like three inches wide and fully twelve
inches long. 1t is bound i'll silver, has two
silver locks and a silver flap, etched in an
intricate pattern of running vines. 1t is
not worth less than $75 and probably cost
more
1t is not long since reporter was sent to
write up wedding, not i'll society circles or
among rich people at all, and the point about
the brides toilet, to which his attention was
especially directed by the family friend who
supplied the items, was the prayer-book,
bound in gold, which she carried to the
altar, and which with its fine engraved
work and jewels was valued at 500.
Women are not the only sinners in the
matter of luxurious trifeS, however. Sena-
tor Tabor's gorgeous might robes" which
We're the talk of the country year or more
ago, and Bob billiards green silk pantaloons
of more recent fame, are eclpsed by a
gentleman's travelling bag which came under
my notice this week. 1t was of moderate
size and of inconspicuous exterior, but with
III there rested against a pale blue plush
lining, hand-painted and be-ribboned, each
IN compartment by itself, silver combs,
silver backed brushes, half dozen cut glass
bottles for minor conveniences, each with
monogram on the silver top, all in such
artistic shapes and such elaborate workman
ship that its owner, who is a very quiet
person and not especially rich, has paid a
considerable fraction of thousand dollars
for it, and thought it cheap at that.
There never was time when so much
could be had for so little money or when SO
little was industriously made to cost so much.
STREET CAR MANNERS
Any change in street car manners in the
future must be for the better since the ex-
IRENE of badness has now been reached.
Not since we became so English has the
average woman under 90 eXpected any man,
under ordinary circumstances, to resign his
place to her, unless, indeed, he were a South
erner or a wild WeSterner, unaccustomed to
New York ways, but until quite recently
the woman with a child in her arms, the
woman who looked sick or the woman with
white hair has seldom been obliged to stand
Even now such women usually get seats, but
it is because women themselves are setting
the example of consideration to the feeble
members of their own sex, not because men
offer the courtesy.
In ride of eight blocks on a crowded car
yesterday | saw a bright-looking working
woman put an overburdened mother with
her child into her seat, and a pretty girl
offer place to an elderly woman and two
schoolgirls jump up together to make room
for feeble old man with a cane. Not a man
moved in either case.
On the elevated roads at the rush hours it
is not an uncommon thing to find ones way
into car IN which not woman is sitting
nor a man sanding How this comes about
| saw illustrated few nights ago in a very
practical way. A Third avenue train had
just accomplished its down trip and was
showing up at the bridge station, prepara-
tory to taking a load of wearied humanity
up town and home There were few people
in the car, but a crowd was waiting on the
platform outside. Before the train had come
to standstill half the windows on the plat
form side were thrown up and men swarmed
through the openings, three good-sized
fellows scrambling across the lap of a woman
in front of me before she had time to rise or
take step toward leaving the car. Two
men climbed over me in the same fashion,
and in half minutes time every seat was
taken by the sex masculine, before a pas
senger had alighted or any woman who
must needs wait upon the proprieties. had
had an opportunity to enter by the door.
An able-bodied woman has as good
right to stand as an able-bodied man, and
women have come to recognize that fact
pretty generally, but there ought to be so
much of a reform as to permit them an equal
a cessation of the complaints about the scar
city of thank yous.
FALSE DIAMONDS.
We don't see so many diamonds as we
think we do nowadays. Rhinestones and
paste are taking their places off as well as
on the stage There are numbers
of women in New York known to possess
jewels worth thousands of dollars, the cut,
setting and appearance of which are per-
fectly familiar to society people, to thieves
and to great many people who cannot be
reckoned in either of. these classes. These
gems are regular part of the entertainment
guaranteed to the purchaser of an opera
ticket, and the holder of the same would feel
that an implied contract had been violated
If their wearers stayed at home or neglected
to spread a travelling show window over
their velvet cOrsages in the great gold casket
of the auditorium, with its horseshoe curves
of boxes full of the customary bench show
of prize danes, damselS and beaux. And
yet the gems-not the women-are frequently
absent when we think them there. Isaw,the
fac simile of a pretty well-known diamond
necklace at a jewelry counter few days
ago.
''All rhinestones," was told. There is
new method of cutting and mounting them,
which bring out greater brilliancy and
makes it possible to dispense with the solid
filing at the back which used to distinguish
the stones at once from real gems These
are safer things to wear. They relieve the
mind from anxiety about losing or stealing;
and so ladies are having duplicates of the
contents of their jewel cases made up in
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away from danger in safe deposit vaults. 1t
takes more than q casual examination to